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Although Quran is in Arabic, there are many words in Quran text, rooted other than Semitic languages, which are difficult to distinguish due to common linguistic etymology . According to Rippin, more than 300 words in the Quran are borrowed from Hebrew, Syriac, Aramaic, Nabataean, Persian, Coptic, Latin, and ancient Greek and Utopian.

From Greek

From Roman

From ancient Persian

From ancient Turkic

References

  1. Lexical Borrowing in the Qur’ān
  2. Lexical Borrowing in the Qur’ān

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